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Teach Truth FCPS Campaign

Resolution of Support for Educators and School-Based Administrators

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Free and Antiracist Minds is working on a way that the FCPS School Board could declare, via a board resolution (below), its support for educators and school-based administrators who are feeling afraid as they try to implement antiracist and culturally responsive teaching as part of our Teach Truth Campaign. Please see the Resolution text below and how to add your name in support!
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Teach Truth FCPS: Resolution of Support for Educators and School-Based Administrators
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Whereas, Fairfax County Public Schools and the community they serve are committed to provide an academically rigorous education that promotes a responsive, caring, and inclusive culture where all feel valued, supported, and hopeful;

Whereas, essential to that inclusive classroom culture is an education that is academically rigorous, positions students to be the leaders of their own learning, reflects all voices, and respects the need and desire of our students to know the truth about historic and systemic injustice;

Whereas, FCPS educators and school-based administrators staff are developing curricular resources to meet our students’ needs and the high expectations of our community around our historic truths, representative literature, critical thinking, and social justice;

Whereas, recent events have caused many FCPS educators and school-based administrators to fear that implementing these necessary curricular improvements might lead to personal or professional harm; and 

Whereas, in the Teacher and Administrator Performance evaluation protocol, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) requires teachers and administrators to demonstrate a commitment to equity and provide instruction and classroom strategies that result in culturally inclusive and responsive learning environments and academic achievement for all students; 

Whereas, it is the role of the Board and the Superintendent to support educators in carrying out the clear and important educational expectations of the VDOE and Fairfax County community that our students are critical thinkers and effective collaborators who acknowledge and understand diverse perspectives and cultures, essential goals of the FCPS Portrait of a Graduate;

Now, therefore, be it resolved the FCPS School Board commits to protect and support educators and school-based administrators in FCPS as they develop and implement antiracist, equity- and justice- based classroom resources and pedagogy that meet the high aspirations of each and every one of our students and of the Fairfax County community.
Supporting Organizations
Supporting Individuals
Fairfax Country Federation of Teachers
4 Public Ed
Stand and Deliver
FEA
FCCPTA
MSAOC
SEPTA
Shahana Islam - Alumni & Future FCPS Parent
Kweli Zukeri - Alumni & FCPS Parent
Corey Haynes - Alumni, Parent, Former FCPS Teacher
Daphne Bo - Alumni & Former FCPS Teacher
Traci McGillicuddy - FCPS Parent
Steven McCullough - FCPS Parent
Pat Hynes - Teacher & Former School Board Member
Jocelyn McCullough - Community Member
Aaryan Rawal - Alumnus
​Dr. Christine Mason - Educator
Tu Phillips - Community Member
Luz Salama - Community Member
Willow Woycke - Parent
Katie Aloisi - Community Member
Sharon Lukom - Community Member
Elizabeth Aloisi - Parent
Melanie Khoury - Parent & Alumnus
Erin Abdelrazaq - Alumnus & Community Member
Marwa Moaz - Parent
Lamise Abdul-Rahman - Community Member
Anika Ahmed - Alumnus
Imane Elyounsi Sagou - Parent
Yesmin Rahman - Parent
Alex Payne - Community Member
Sajeda Muhebbullah - Parent
Shamsul Haque - Alumnus
Cayce Utley - Parent 
Maren Astell - Community Member
Hadil Alyamani - Alumnus
Asmaa Ibrahim - Alumnus
Marium Imran - Community Member
Helen - Parent
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